Tag: Community
PHOTOS: Riding high at the Alvinston Pro Rodeo
The seventh annual Alvinston Pro Rodeo was run this weekend by the Brooke-Alvinston Agricultural Society in the rural community located between London and Sarnia. Photos by LFP’s Geoff Robins grobins@postmedia.com
Dyer: Solar storm damage could be mitigated
When massive solar storms smash into Earth’s magnetic field, they deliver energy and charged particles that scramble satellite electronics
Pride takes over downtown Owen Sound Saturday
Hundreds turn out for the annual Pride parade and the “Big Gay Block Party”
Bruce County working on embedding seniors’ needs in plans
Bruce County council will be asked to approve an ‘age-friendly’ plan in development now so that council priorities include seniors’ needs.
In school cafeterias, kids fight Michigan’s food waste problems
By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira
An unknown number of schools across Michigan have taken up composting initiatives, but coalitions of education and anti-food waste groups want to see more. They’ve begun lobbying state legislators in hopes of securing $3 million for a pilot grant program that would allow schools across the state to replicate the composting program at Hayes Elementary School in Livonia.